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The rupee appreciated 3 paise to 82.99 against the US dollar in early trade on Thursday, amid a positive trend in domestic equities. Forex traders said rupee is trading in a narrow range as strong American currency and elevated crude oil prices weighed on the local unit and restricted the uptick in the domestic unit. At the interbank foreign exchange, the domestic currency opened at 83.00, then touched 82.99 against the greenback in initial deals, registering a rise of 3 paise from its previous close.

Stella Violla had a number of reasons for wanting to get on to a weight-loss drug. For one thing, she wanted to get pregnant (she was overweight) and for another, she needed something to control her diabetes at the moment. This would also not be her first tryst with weight-loss injections. Previously, she had taken one that helped her shed 20kg, the Brazilian expat recalls. “And so my doctor said, let’s try Ozempic.” Ozempic, the drug that treats diabetes was first approved in 2017 by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and gained a steady stream of users, from…

-آى بي للتطوير العقاري تقدم رؤيتها لسكن مستدام في دبي بإطلاق مشروعها “آى بي كافيلير” 2-“آى بي للتطوير العقاري” تطلق مشروعها “آى بي كافيلير” لمعيشة مستدامة في دبي دبي، الإمارات العربية المتحدة – أطلقت شركة آى بي للتطوير العقاري مشروعها “آى بي كافيلير”، وهو مشروع تطوير مبدع مصمم لتلبية الاحتياجات المتغيرة لملاك المنازل الحديثة، في خطوة مبتكرة ستعيد تعريف الحياة المستدامة في دبي. ويعزز هذا المشروع مكانة شركة “آى بي للتطوير العقاري” كشركة رائدة في مجال التطوير العقاري المستدام، كما يعد خطوة كبيرة نحو بناء مجتمعات حيوية وصديقة للبيئة.           بفضل التزامها طويل الأمد ببناء مساحات معيشة مستدامة وخبرتها الواسعة، تعد…

Connections is the latest puzzle game from the New York Times. The game tasks you with categorizing a pool of 16 words into four secret (for now) groups by figuring out how the words relate to each other. The puzzle resets every night at midnight and each new puzzle has a varying degree of difficulty. Just like Wordle, you can keep track of your winning streak and compare your scores with friends. Some days are trickier than others. If you’re having a little trouble solving today’s Connections puzzle, check out our tips and hints below. And if you still can’t get…

It’s widely believed that the word “sandwich” was invented because of the behaviour of 18th-century aristocrat John Montagu, the fourth Earl of Sandwich, reputedly an inveterate gambler who didn’t like to leave the card table for an activity as mundane as dinner. Accordingly, it is said, he asked for meat to be placed between two slices of bread so that he could eat without interrupting his gambling. (The bread served the additional purpose of not getting his hands greasy from the meat, which would have rubbed off on the cards.) Soon enough, his fellow gamblers began to ask the servants…

Dr Mohamed Al Azhari, a Syrian, decided to move from his university in Berlin to Abu Dhabi in 1966, before the seven Trucial states unified to become the UAE. His two sons, Anwar Al Azhari, born in1970 in Dubai, and Karim Al Azhari, born in 1973 in Abu Dhabi are now carrying the baton of a family business he set up then, drawing from the rich learnings of a Syrian- German parentage. Business in the 70s and now “In the 70s, it was a simpler world. Business deals were sealed with a handshake; the community was very personal. The availability…

As I sit to write this column on a Valentine’s Day, the world, drowning in a sea of roses, would be bleeding love. Like there’s no tomorrow. Millions of notes dripping romance would exchange hands — and hearts — at candlelight dinners. The world outside of my cocoon would be delirious while I try to fathom why love has to wait a full year to celebrate itself. In times past, we never celebrated Valentine’s Day. We hadn’t even heard about it though it must have been there in other parts of the world. We didn’t have the patience to wait…

Americana Restaurants Delivers $2.41 Billion Revenue in        FY 2023, Reflecting Stability and Growth Revenue for FY 2023 reached $2,413.1 million resulting in Adjusted EBITDA margin of 22.8% Gross capex amounted to $167.9 million, supporting scale-up of brands Americana Restaurants opened 300 gross new stores (252 net new stores) in line with its commitment to expansion UAE, Abu Dhabi 15 February 2024: Americana Restaurants International PLC and its subsidiaries (“Americana Restaurants” or the “Company”) (ADX symbol: AMR/ ISIN: AEE01135A222) (Saudi Stock Exchange symbol: 6015), the largest out-of-home dining and quick service restaurant operator in the Middle East & North Africa (“MENA”)…

Vision Pro returns are seeing a sudden uptick, according to multiple news reports citing activity on social media. Apple started shipping the Vision Pro headset to great fanfare on February 2, with the tech giant reportedly hoping to sell as many as half a million headsets before the end of this year. So why are people already returning them? First, the uptick is to be expected, as some folks will have bought the Vision Pro already with the intention of taking it back within Apple’s standard two-week limit for product returns — and that’s this Friday for those who received…

The first thing that greeted my eyes immediately after coming out from the international airport terminal at Bandar Seri Begawan, the capital of Brunei Darussalam, was a nice little mosque, which signalled that I was entering a country where Islamic heritage takes centre stage. However, the outside world knows Brunei more as an oil-rich country, led by a monarch who is super-wealthy and enjoys a luxurious lifestyle. Reading several media stories about him and his wealthy empire, many including myself conceived a perception that everything in Brunei is wrapped in gold from the water taps to mosque minarets. When I…